<p class="header4" align="center">SPECIAL MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT</p>

<p class="title" align="center">Triangle Java Users Group Presents:</p>

<p align="center">our first ever<br><span class="header4">J2EE Container Shootout</span></br>

<span align="center" class="header3">with representatives from BEA, JBoss, IBM, Oracle

</span></p>



<p align="center"><b>Monday, September 23, 2002 </b><br>

<b>6:30 PM - 9:00 PM</b> <br>



<b>MCNC Auditorium</b> <br>

3021 Cornwallis Road <br>

Research Triangle Park, North Carolina</p>







<p><span class="header2">Abstract:</span><br>



Ever wonder what is the difference between the J2EE containers?  How do these guys see themselves

and how they see each other?  What technologies do they all support? Now you get to ask.</p>







<p><span class="header2">The Representatives:</span><br>

We'll have representatives from

  <a href="http://www.bea.com">BEA</a>,

  <a href="http://www.jboss.org/">JBoss</a>,

  <a href="http://www.ibm.com">IBM</a> and

  <a href="http://www.oracle.com">Oracle</a>

coming to answer your questions.</p>











<p><b>Robert Patrick of BEA,</b><br>

Director of Technology, Office of the CTO, has an extensive background that includes the early years of the web as well as JAVA and distributed transactional systems.</p>



<p>At Carnegie Mellon's Engineering Design Research Center, Robert worked on a distributed engineering information system that was used to build web-based collaborative systems for large manufacturing companies. His focus was on searching distributed database technology and distributed transaction processing. After leaving Carnegie Mellon, Robert worked as a consultant and instructor, focusing on architecting and building large distributed transactions processing systems with Tuxedo and CORBA. Robert was one of the first BEA WebLogic Server instructors and one of the first WebLogic Server consultants.</p>



<p>Robert spent several years in BEA Systems Technical Solutions Group where he was a Technical Director and responsible for everything from technical discussions, architectural assessments, designing and building proof-of-concept applications, and running benchmarks to troubleshooting production systems. Robert joined the CTO Office as the Director of Technology in March of 2002 where he divides his time between technology strategy and field activities.



<p><b>Marc Fleury of JBoss,</b><br>

President of the JBoss Group, LLC, based in Atlanta, was Born in Paris in 1968. He started in sales at Sun Microsystems France and then transitioned to engineering. After working in SAP development while at SUN he got bored and started JBoss.</p>



<p>A graduate of Ecole Polytechnique, and an ex-Lieutenant in the paratroopers, he has a master in Theoretical Physics from the ENS ULM and a Ph.D in Physics for experimental work he did as a visiting scientist from Ecole Polytechnique at MIT's RLE. Marc enjoys the family/extended family feel to the Open Source business model. He is dedicated to making JBoss Group the dominant web-app server company.</p>



<p><b>Matt Hogstrom of IBM,</b><br>

a Senior Software Engineer with the WebSphere performance group, has been with IBM for three years. He has represented IBM to JSR-004 (ECperf 1.0) and JSR-131 (ECperf 1.1) and is also one of IBM's representatives to the Standard Performance Engineering Corporation (SPEC) Open Systems Group Java committee (OSG-Java). His responsibilities at IBM include benchmarking and performance research for the IBM WebSphere Application Server.</p>



<p><b>Farzin Barazandeh of Oracle,</b><br>

is Director of Technology Development. He has been with Oracle Corporation since 1996, with the initial responsibility of development of High Availability solutions on the HP-UX platform. For the last two years he has been with Oracle9iAS division, with responsibility to resolve technical issues related to ISV integration with Oracle middle tier products. Farzin has lived in Chapel Hill since 1988.</p>



























<p><span class="header2">To submit a question</span> first note that the questions should be vendor neutral, for instance: "Who do you see as your typical customer as far as size and profile?" or "What does your container offer as far as integration with products such as Seibel or SAP?". Not "This is for panel member X. I'm trying to have an EJB open connections to 3 other machines in each call but I don't like closing them. Why is my EJB crashing?". You may submit as many questions as you like to <a HREF="mailto:acoliver@superlinksoftware.com">Andrew C. Oliver</a>. You don't have to be a JUG Member.



<p>Each member of the panel will get equal time to answer.</p>



<p>There will be pizza, drinks and the rest, but show up early, this one will probably be packed.</p>







<span class="header2">Agenda:</span><br>

6:30 - 7:00 PM -- Meet, Talk, Snacks <br>

7:00 - 7:15 -- JUG Business and Announcements <br>

7:10 - 8:30 -- The Panel Answers Our Questions<br>

9:00 - Doors close <br>



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<p><span class="header2">Admission:</span><br>

Paid-up members of TriJUG may attend without additional charge.

Non members are asked to pay $5 per meeting. But, if you are either a full time student or unemployed, then we ask only $2 per meeting.</p>







<p><span class="header2">DIRECTIONS to MCNC:</span><br>

<b>From Raleigh:</b><br>

Take I-40 West toward Durham and Chapel Hill. You will enter RTP. Where I-40 splits, bear right onto the Durham Freeway North (Highway 147). Take the Cornwallis Road Exit. At the end of the exit ramp, bear right - cross back over the Freeway. MCNC is located approximately 3/4 mile on the right.</p>





<p><b>From Durham:</b><br>

Get on the Durham Freeway South (Highway 147). Take the Cornwallis Road exit. At the end of the ramp, bear right - MCNC is approximately 3/4 mile on right. </p>



<p align="center">Click here for <a href="http://trijug.org/mcnc/?/directions.html">map with directions</a>, or visit the <a href="http://trijug.org/mcnc/?/">MCNC web site</a>.</p>







